Had the six meter beam down for maintenance, so just operated 2 meters. Decent tropo conditions, but not great, no 2m E skip here (unlike some lucky people!). Worked just about everything I could cop
I use a Yaesu G-450XL that I got on ebay. It turns a 5 el six meter and 19 el two meter (32-19 not the 17b2! ), a six el FM yagi, plus a 30 ft Radio Shack pushup pole (yup, I turn the whole thing). N
I don't understand the obsession with 144.200 at all. Are we crystal controlled? I've been yelled at because I wasn't 'on frequency' but off by a few hundred hz. Who came up with this "calling freque
I've compiled a short list of the regions active nets. Check them out. If you have any additional nets or corrections, please forward them to me and I'll publish an updated list. John K9RZZ Milwaukee
<< In East Central Florida (EL99) if you are not on 144.200 at least to monitor you will not make many contacts. >> The solution is to teach the FM boys to ~turn~ their VFO, it's not a channel select
There is a link on the 144 mhz Prop Logger for a beacon list. Some of them are no longer active, but the email given for author WZ1V is no good (nor is the QRZ.com address). Can anyone forward his cu
<< Mike, perhaps an FM-only contest for the newbies in your area would be a good intro. >> S.E. Wisconsin also has an FM simplex contest in spring, on 6, 2, 222, and 432. Good way to motivate these g
<< Why then not allow fully-internet connected and digipeated APRS then? >> You mean like the increasingly popular HSMS where you can't even make a contact unless you're connected to the internet?? J
I'll be on 2m FM only from the car this Field Day. I worked two guys this morning with my 140 watts and 5/8 wave ... one guy 40 miles away to the west, and another 60 miles south in Illinois. Two sta
eQSL is pretty popular and very easy to use. Doesn't do much towards the ARRL awards, but still neat in its own way. John K9RZZ _______________________________________________ VHFcontesting mailing l
<< FD is not a contest. >> It's not? John K9RZZ _______________________________________________ VHFcontesting mailing list VHFcontesting@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/vh
<< "Field Day is officially an operating event rather than a contest." "Officially, Field Day is not a contest." I understand, I was wrong. It's an 'operating event' with logs, bonus points, scores,
I've finally come to the conslusion that non-digital MS is dead (for 144mhz). Ping jockey has lots of action (digital), MS Rocks on the Prop Logger is all digital, and I never see any posts anywhere
People were pretty well behaved this past June VHF contest. Could be that they were too busy on 6m though. John K9RZZ Milwaukee _______________________________________________ VHFcontesting mailing l
<< The Milwaukee Club (MRAC) tried a similar thing at the same time I was doing this. You can find the rules for their FM Simplex contest (which are much better developed than mine) at http://www.qsl
<< I picked up a IC-211 yesterday and I'm looking for a copy of the service manual for it. Have the instruction manual already. Just need the service manual. If anyone has a copy that can be copied o
<< http://www.RFSport.com >> Why doen't it show the calls of the station worked after the contest? Kinda cool, but I see it as another internet crutch to contesting. Call me old school, but I _like i
<< Then it got to where I was just feeling like junk. I couldn't even say the "Quebec" in my phonetics properly. >> Ahhhh the joys of CW are reveiled! You'd be looking for the bag of pretzels while t